Month: June 2026

Reed’s view Anthropic has, once again, found its future in the crosshairs of the Trump administration. None of this is necessary. The thing most people don’t realize is that Anthropic isn’t fundamentally opposed to the current administration’s economic goals. It isn’t the “woke” or anti-capitalist caricature that the administration has ...

It’s getting harder to tell the agents apart from the humans. For cybersecurity companies, identifying a digital agent crawling a website used to be enough evidence of malicious activity. Now, digital agents are representing human users and making purchases online, prompting sellers to reconfigure their businesses to better serve agents ...

Ten years ago, after complaining that traffic was ‘driving him nuts’, Musk’s Boring Company began building underground tunnels to ease congestion on the roads. Did he overpromise and underdeliver? It’s another blindingly bright day in Las Vegas but I’m 30ft underground and strapped in for a rocket ride to the ...

After years of anxiety and burnout, finance expert Shang Saavedra says the path to financial freedom may start with your therapist Shang Saavedra was an immigrant family’s dream: She earned stellar grades and made her way to Harvard. Upon graduation she was making six figures, living frugally and investing at ...

Unsafe AI systems are leading to cyber weapons of mass destruction Stuart Russell is a computer scientist known for his contributions to AI and a new Guardian US columnist The AI company Anthropic has been making major headlines recently. Its trillion-dollar IPO plan and its blood feud with secretary of ...

Okra holds a special place in many African-descended communities, and a Canadian farmer with Jamaican roots is growing a very old variety When Nicole Austin was growing up in Oshawa, Canada, her Jamaican family couldn’t find the foods they enjoyed back on the island. No callaloo, garden eggs or okra. ...

After two friends sponsored each other in Alcoholics Anonymous, they started making music. As they gear up for a summer of 40 festivals, the band tell their harrowing yet uplifting story On stage in a Camden pub, Barry Quinlan, frontman of Irish rockers Bleech 9:3, shares the intensity of Joy ...

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) appears to be purchasing records related to immigrants’ tax identifiers from a data broker, potentially skirting a court order that banned ICE from sourcing such information, according to Senator Ron Wyden and government procurement records reviewed by 404 Media. The contract, worth nearly $10 million, ...

We start this week with Joseph’s story about the FCC’s wild proposal to require peoples’ government ID numbers to even get a phone plan. The FCC is doing it to curb robocalls, but also said it would be useful for a bunch of other stuff. After the break, Jason tells ...

Three Iranian tankers loaded with crude oil have passed the US blockade line in the Gulf of Oman, ship-tracking data shows. ...